New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-03
MOVING DAY SAFELY PASSED.
rRucKMEN COMPLETE THEIR HARVEST.
CHANGES IN DOWNTOWN BUSINESS fIRMs-INcI-
DENTS IN COURT


DENTS IN COURT.
The worst of the moving season was over yesterday
and tho tfuckmen who gorged themselves last FRIDAY
and Saturday had to be content with scraps ana
pickings of domestic wreckage. Some OF them'
fortunately had grown rich enough on last weeks
epos to retire for the rest OF the year on compe
tency The less enterprisng who were 1915 IN .,ie
field stuck to the average prices all day. out ING
demand has slackeped hopelessly, ana by tolnorroW
all mo ling will be down again to every day truck
rates. - ,
The little square at Broadway sixth-ave' ana
Thirty third ST. where tiuckmen copgregate for days
before the moving begins, the last place 10
sbov the ebb OF this annual overturning dozen or
moe tramp expressmen were lettering yesterday
in the shadow of the elevated station looking Tor small
Jobs and two three big painted vans were lined up
along the north plaza to the lett OF and behind inc
Dodge statue. But their calls were as ihrequent as
the cabmaps across the way. And by night many Oh
them nd gone home in despair OF further piunder.
Across on the East Side moving had stopped
altogether Family moving il not sucha vast under
taking over there and all the changes had been mace
apparently on Friday and Saturday. Few people any
where in fact except those going out OF town, held
their leases this year until the last minute allowed by
the law Saturday was the popular day Tor transfers
and Sunday, with its new tangled enforcement OF
the excise laws, made phenomenal showing Oh
floating population tor the city.
The big companies are still running their full force
of drivers and and will be as busy as ever per-
haps all through this week No orders could be taken
before Yesterday tor out OF town moving WIN the
first and secoud weeks OF May, this sets In strongly
ann lasts until the first of June Prices for moving ia
town will tall OF to-day tomorrow to $lZ and Plo
a load according to the distance. Some vans nave
been making $40 a load for the last five days.
Countr, moving has tariff of its according to
the mileage the van itself being shipped by rail- or
boat. Tramp" expressmens rates are all OF sea
as usual each taking all he can get and COM
planning because he cannot get more
The changes il Wall Street firms were rather more
Than al bur
important Gerard b. Stanton retired from the we'll
known firm of Z. X. Willard q Co <. II. G Thomas
dean was admitted. Daniel I. Worden formed a new
pai tnershp with H. De Seldng az the JUNIOR member
w. ii. Cox retired from the firm bearing MS name
and the remaining partners continued business under
the style of Cox & Sharp new firm under the
name Of Albert Meter Co., with branch at Cincin
Meter. A. A. Hyneman, Carl A. G. Adae and John X.
Long. A copartnershlp with headquarters al
Chicago comprise Charles I. Palmeter ana NNogar "a,
MAYER as general partners and Alexander D. Mayer as
a special partner. b. L. Smyth, an old memoer OF the
Stock Exchange, is senior partner OF new nm IN
which Chauncey Stillman and sydney L. Smytn are
the other members The bullion and specie business
OF ]. b. Colgate Co., will be carried ON by John H.
IL Nesslage ". Starr Colgate and Edward H. Fuller,
under the name OF Nessage, Colgate g. Co.
Only few changes made at the Produce Ex-
change Patterson, Clapp s. Co.. discontinue oTsi-
ness, their successors being Logan, Cowl u 20 Van
Welt Bostwck & Co. dissolve and two new hrms
succeed them, b. NJ. Van Welt a. Co., and Bostwick
& sheridan Hart & Little dissolve partnership
A r. Uart retiring from active business and Fred
erick Little establishing general brokerage bus-
ness Walter RAFT retres from the firm of t. Rande-
brock g. Co. Day g. Hanford dissolve, james Day
and W. s. Hantord establishing separate brokerage
offices. -,
May day scenes brought out by dispossess proceed
ings were enacted in all their varied forms 10 the
Fourth District Court before Justice Alfred Steckle
Nearly 200 cases brought at the instance OF land
lords 10 dispossess tenants were disposed or Many
were the excuses offered by tenants to remain IN their
old quarters, some had children sick with scarlet
fever husbands had sick wives and others cond not
move because they had no place to go, and were
without means TO The justice was considerate
with the tenants giving them all until to-day and
some until tomorrow to move, and absolutely re-
fusing to issue execution 10 put poor people on tue
sidewalk, when they had no place to move into.
A well dressed landlord OF German birth, wanted
tenant put out at once. Beside him stood woman
pale. and thin, who asked for days delay so that
sis conld get other rooms Her husband is crazy"
said the landlord he runs around the house with
knife in his hands and wants tv stab me-"
Don't believe that" cried the woman, " he is tell
ing lies" The Justice gave her until to-day TO move
furon condition that her husband would make no
disturbance. She thanked him and lett the court.
Then came the father OF a family, who with tears in
his eyes, presented certificate from his physician
showing that his children were sick with scarlet
fever and asked few days grace before beng Put
upon the street. The landlord asserted that this was
only trick in order that the man might keep the
rooms but Justice Steckler WAS confident that the
father was telling the truth and gave directors that
the family should not be dispossessed until the
children were in such condition that they could be
moved. ~ m
In Brooklyn some of the streets we're filed with
trucks and vans The number of loads over the
Bridge was nearly even both ways. In the last
eighteen DAYS of April 361 loads crossed the Bridge
from New York and 357 to New-York.